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Together We Stand (CBS). In a close encounter of a more familiar kind, Elliott Gould and Dee Wallace Stone play parents who decide to adopt a child and wind up with two: a 14-year-old half-Vietnamese boy and a six-year-old black girl. Added to the Wasp pair already on hand, the newcomers set the family melting pot at high boil. The sentiment gets a bit thick, but there is something appealing about the war orphan's brashness ("My dad was a big hero. Maybe you heard of him -- John Wayne") and something real about...
Other grievances swarm up from the past. Phillip recalls how his father prevented both daughters from marrying, scaring off suitors or using courtroom wiles to turn the impressionable girls into witnesses against their gentlemen friends. The third child, Georgie, was ostensibly so traumatized by family life that he volunteered for service in World War II with the sole intent of being killed, at which he succeeded. The old man also managed to put an end to Phillip's courtship of a "girl I was in love with in Chattanooga (and there has never been another)." As these remembrances and confessions...
...guilty finger in A Summons to Memphis seems to point nearly everywhere. Phillip's dry, punctilious narrative style hardly jibes with his claims to be a doomed romantic hero. Thinking back on the girl in Chattanooga, he remarks, "Surely no life was ever so quickly and completely transformed by love as mine was." Yet his only visible passion is self-absorption. He cannot even muster much interest in Alex Mercer, "my closest friend there in Memphis." He admits several times his inability to remember just how many children Alex and his wife possess...
Diane Giacalone, the Ozone Park girl who moved across the river to Manhattan, is not remembered so clearly. The only daughter of a civil engineer, she grew up middle class; she is backyard-wise, not streetwise. Giacalone was an anomaly in the neighborhood; she wanted to go to college. At New York University she protested against the Viet Nam War, but was otherwise apolitical. Even though she opted for law school at N.Y.U., she was never sure that she wanted to be a lawyer. Later, while in Washington with the Justice Department's tax division, she began to do some...
...some for being squeaky clean to the opposite extreme. And this year, a very unladylike catfight breaks out in the press after the crown goes to Tennessee's Kellye Cash. At last count, Miss Florida, Molly Pesce, had been quoted as calling the new Miss America the "least-liked girl" in the pageant; Miss Ohio, Mary Zilba, had complained about being "robbed" by not making the final ten; and Miss New York, Dawen McPeak, had blasted the judges for being biased. Were that not enough to make one's mascara run, Pesce also observed that it had not hurt Miss...